We're the official blog hosting Rosegarden Week, an entire seven-day, twice-a-year celebration for shipping Ruby and Oscar together! Next week will be April 3rd to 9th!
RWBY Vol 9 is around the corner and so is the start of ROSEGARDEN WEEK!
RG Week will commence on ✨April 3 - April 9!✨
In the past we’ve hosted different ways to involve our blooming community, either by sending in your prompts and voting or having you all share your prompt lists. This time around we wanted to present a list of prompts that are inspired by Vol 9. We hope this sparks some creative ideas and hype for the upcoming season, along with bringing some unity to the RWBY FNDM.
Remember to use the hashtag #RGWeek2023 and tag us at @rosegardenweek, so everyone can easily find your work.
We can’t wait to see what creative works you’ll create!
The organizers of this RG week are no longer motivated to host it after several negative situations in the community during the last two years. I think that’s shown in the way the last weeks were handled with less care and dedication than before, even upsetting some participants with the lack of community input in the prompt lists.
So please, anyone, feel free to create a new blog to take over the task, we won’t mind! That’s how we started hosting it after all.
If any new blog is made, let us know and we will be sure to direct the community there! :)
"Combat gear looks good~"
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We're always clowning on how Oscar has this neon sign over his head saying "I LIKE RUBY ROSE" because of the several inspirations from her combat gear that are in his combat gear. So I just went ahead and made this lol
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 4/?
Fandom: RWBY
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Oscar Pine/Ruby Rose, Other Relationship Tags to Be Added
Characters: Oscar Pine, Ruby Rose (RWBY), Team RWBY, Team JNPR, OC team for Oscar
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Oscar Pine Goes to Beacon, Aged-Up Oscar Pine
Summary:
Oscar Pine always dreamed of being more than just a farmhand. In one life, the opportunity never came until an old burden was passed onto him. In this life, Oscar Pine will seek the life he’s always wanted before that weight ever sits on his shoulders. But this change in his fate will effect more than just him alone.
Some potential Rosegarden moments/parallels I'd love to see done in a future season of RWBY...
Oscar presumably “dying” and Ruby taking him to a god-like entity (meaning the Blacksmith and the Tree of the Ever After) in a desperate attempt to bring him back to life, mirroring Salem who did the same for Ozma with the Brother Gods back in the Lost Fable.
Neo being reborn as a sentient god-like being connected to the Tree of the Ever After, replacing both the Curious Cat and the Jabberwalker and using her newfound abilities to aid Ruby in her second life as repayment for the horrible deeds she did to her in her past life; including using Oscar’s dying form to break her. I really like the potential parallel of Neo returning to use her powers to help Ruby this time by saving Oscar’s life.
Perhaps Neo will become somewhat of an Avatar-like being---becoming a bridge between Remnant and the Ever After and being able to transport people to the other world freely and take them to the Tree.
Oscar being taken to the Tree and undergoing his own metamorphosis; although his own is seen as being different from others considering that he was meant to be two souls in one.
Oscar’s transformation taking some time due to the uniqueness of his situation so during the interim period, he is kept safe in the Tree (thanks to Neo) and is visited often by Ruby who begins to realize her true feelings for him in his absence; paralleling the Rose from the Little Prince tale who didn’t return the prince’s feelings until he left her side. So as the little prince slept, his rose patiently waited for the day he would be reborn again and return to her.
Similar to how Ruby was able to see her mother’s memories by touching her weapon, Oscar would meet the Blacksmith and get to see more memories from his past lives including Ozpin’s who’s life we never got to see more of.
Since one can choose to become someone else while undergoing ascension, imagine if…unlike Ruby who chose herself in the end, let’s say Oscar’s time in the Tree is the opposite of Ruby’s. Imagine if Oscar does chose to become Ozma because he learns from the Blacksmith that he is Ozma. Once upon a time, I shared a Pinehead headcanon that Oscar is the true reincarnation of Ozma. That unlike previous Wizards in the cycle, Oscar is the reincarnation of Ozma’s former form that he never regained when he was revived the first time. So Oscar is the one true Ozma reborn in modern Remnant and that the Merge wasn’t meant to “kill him” but make him whole again. The cycle was always meant to end with Oscar. He was never meant to be just “another one of Ozma’s lives”. He was always destined to be the last one because he is one true Ozma.
So Oscar returns, as his fully realized self with the Long Memory taking a new form to reflect his transformation and complete rebirth.
Bonus if we get another moment of Oscar saying "Not quite" as a nice callback to his V5 moment against Lionhart.
Oscar arriving to save/protect Ruby from eminent danger, paralleling all the times she has looked out for him over the seasons.
Oscar returning from the equivalent of death for Ruby because his love and unyielding desire to protect her was enough for him to return to her; mirroring Ozma who only agreed to the God of Light’s plans for him because it gave him a chance to be reunited with his beloved Salem.
Oscar and Ruby fighting together side by side for the first time (similar to Ozma and Salem in the Lost Fable) and their tag-team fight dynamic resembling somewhat of a dance between them throughout which they both exchange smiles with one another; particularly Ruby--- hearkening back to her V2 statement about her not being a “dance-y, prance-y, dance-y girl” only for her first official “dance” to be one on the battlefield where she’s most comfortable.
Oscar and Ruby escaping near danger together and ending up in a field of flowers (preferably roses) where they realize their love for one another; paralleling Salem and Ozma in the Lost Fable.
Snow Day + “What’s important is that you love me, and I’ll love you for always”
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My January submission for @ayearofrosegarden!
I’m glad how it came out, not quite used to drawing these characters yet, but it was fun and cute!
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